Gnomai as a source of cosmological reflection
The nature of gnomai according to modern scholarship
Ancient thinking on gnomai
The "true point" of gnomai
The gnomic expression of cosmology in Pindar
Definitions and assumptions
The elemental forces : fate, God, nature and man
The human condition
Man in society
Cosmology in action : an analysis of selected odes
Olympian 12 : an immigrant and his adopted city
Isthmian 4 : creating for an ill-favoured victor
Olympian 13 : praising an ambitious family
The poet as mediator of cosmology
Isthmian 4 : the poet modifies a cosmological premise
Olympian 13 : the poet demonstrates cosmological principles
Cosmology and the poet in short odes
Olympian 9 and Nemean 3 : the poet assumes different attitudes to a central cosmological tenet.